“What we do deeply, deeply matters,” George C. Wolfe, director and book writer of Shuffle Along, told a group of out-of-town theater owners and presenters in another week focused on the season just passed — even as we learned some exciting news about the season to come.

Week in New York Theater Reviews

While Broadway is reacquainting audiences with Shuffle Along, Off-Broadway is opening our eyes to another landmark Broadway show from the 1920s – this one an all-Jewish, lesbian-themed drama that led to a criminal prosecution.Indecent is both a fascinating history lesson written by Pulitzer-winning Paul Vogel, and a cleverly staged entertainment directed by Rebecca Taichman.

One leaves this 90-minute play about comedian and activist Dick Gregory thinking of it as a stand-up comedy routine more than a biographical drama. This is in part because the play doesn’t emphasize the biography, going into few details. But it’s mostly because of Joe Morton, an accomplished stage and film actor best known now as Olivia Pope’s father in the TV series Scandal, who turns out to have terrific comic delivery.

The beginning of “Half Moon Bay”…. does not promise a great romance. But it winds up delivering something almost as sweet – a charmingly-acted, quirky, subtly comic, touching look at the tentative, fumbling effort by two characters to make a connection.

Week in New York Theater News

“Jitney,” the only one of the ten plays that make up August Wilson’s American Century Cycle that has never been presented on Broadway, will finally get there in December (opening January 19, 2017), at MTC’s Samuel J. Friedman Theater, directed by long-time Wilson interpreter Ruben Santiago-Hudson.

Here are Santiago-Hudson, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Clarke Peters and others explaining the continuing appeal of August Wilson at the opening three years ago of the stage readings of all ten plays.